Fish points to the importance of the structure of the reader's experience in opposition to the Formalist's emphasis on locating meaning in the forms and linguistic relations in the text, Fish argues that readers, or at least competent readers, belong to “interpretive communities” which are “made up of those who share interpretive strategies not for reading (in the conventional sense) but for writing texts, for constituting their properties and assigning their intentions.” These strategies, he points out, exist prior to the act of reading and therefore “determine the shape of what is read.”
good afternoon, Miss Zahra, i just want to ask if you have any arabic writings.
You can google Fish'theory of interpretive community. It'll clarify any misunderstanding for you.good luck
it shares certain values and reading "keys" that fit the cultural context of production of the text. Example : a familiarity with Confucius principles (filial devotion) allows the interpretation of Mulan as a dutiful daughter who joined the army in his stead because he was too feeble (being too old). Nobody saw she was a woman under disguise and she fought valiantly. Today, our Western interpretive community will probably receive this text as porto-feminist (women may perform as well as men in the army) as Disney did. (it is a misreading of sorts because we do not belong to the interpretive community expected by the author. Other texts "assume" knowledge of Greek antiquity or biblical lore for its readability. Perhaps it rejoins the idea of "habitus".
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